Emerson instructed us to “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your reading have been to you like the blast of truimpth out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.”

Following Emerson’s guidance, I offer some of my favorite blasts of triumph. You can search by topic or by teacher or you can just hit refresh and keep getting 5 new random quotes below:-

• The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.

  ~ Calvin Coolidge quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Vision

• The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

  ~ Tom Clancy quotes

• Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.

  ~ Buckminster Fuller quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Mistake, Give

• The commonsense rules of the “real world” are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.

  ~ Timothy Ferriss quotes

• “Do you know why most people sleep so much?” “Why?” “Because they really don’t have anything else to do. Those who rise with the sun all have one thing in common.” “Insanity?” “Very funny. No, they all have a purpose that fans the flames of their inner potential.”

  ~ Robin Sharma quotes

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